Received with mixed feelings among the people there’s no denying intrigue it brings. The paper lays out step by step in replicating an authentic German Helles with the elusive “it” character that led this group on a wild goose chase to decipher german brewing text.

The findings were that oxygen plays a key role in the detriment to malt and hop character not only post fermentation (as all have already accepted) but also on the hot side in the brew house. While this was originally intended for those german lagers the techniques discussed can be applied to any beer style to preserve flavor stability.

Don’t forget to get your tickets to SourFest if you will be in Charlotte NC on November 19th!

Also Please Help Support NC HomeBrew Laws by getting involved with the Beer Wars Competition.

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Episode #42 has us discussing an important and hot homebrew topic especially in NC, sharing of homebrew at public events.

The last few years has seen both ALE and ABC cracking down on events with homebrew because our state NC laws do not specifically say that it is allowed.

Charles Willet, one of the individuals behind Operation Liberate Homebrew joins us in studio to discuss not only the current road blocks homebrewers are facing but also how the Organization hopes to help change homebrew law.

To help fund Operation Liberate Homebrew’s lobbying efforts The Beer Army Foundation is presenting Beer Wars Commercial Beers competition. We are recruiting volunteers to help us run, judge and Steward this Competition taking place Saturday Jan. 14, 2017. The proceeds from this event will fund legislation changes as well as set up a Guild to oversee these issues on a state wide level here in North Carolina so please consider signing up at the link below.

This weekend we travel down to Columbia SC on a scorching hot Saturday to enjoy some cool mugs of Kellerbier.

We’re sitting down with Columbia native and well traveled German expert Scott Burgess, and talking about his new venture BierKeller Columbia. Scott is looking to bring the beers he enjoyed while studying Abroad in Franconia to the Columbia area as well as serving them in a traditional German biergarten setting throughout the town.

Also Joining us is our yeast man Chris Woods. Chris has been helping Scott with his yeast cell counting and viability. Follow along as we find out more about what inspired Scott to start his own German brewery and the unique contract arrangement he has with Swamp Cabbage.

This episode we are joined by Todd Ford, Chad Henderson and David Gonzales of NoDa Brewing Company. They let us crash one of their conference rooms to record and joined us to discuss the new trend of New England or North Eastern IPA’s.

We discuss what differentiates this style of IPA from others and we even sample a few while recording. We also take a deep dive on how to craft one at home discussing malt bill, water conditioning, yeast and hop additions.

Todd also discusses a topic close to his heart and ours; Craft Freedom. A North Carolina movement to allow local breweries to self distribute past the 25,000 bbl cap.

After a bit of a break, and fresh off our trip to Baltimore for the National Homebrew Conference, we are back!. Join us from our new temporary studio in the Daan’s office, where we are getting down and nerdy with water testing.

This week we will also cover our NHC 2016 experience, where we actually bumped into our guest in the expo section of the conference. We Have Ernie Rector marketing manager from LaMotte calling in to walk us through their new BrewLab Kit. LaMotte has been in the business of Water analysis for almost 100 years spanning all industries and recently released this kit under the direction of Ernie and guidance of Homebrew icon John Palmer.

Ernie has an extensive background in water analysis, spending almost 25 years in the Utilities industry before joining LaMotte. In this episode we will discuss the basics of this kit and what you can test with it. Ernie has a wealth of knowledge and his experience shows in the quality of the BrewLab kit. So grab your favorite water based beverage (beer), and tune in to this first installment of water testing with LaMotte.